BOOK SUMMARY OF CONTEMPORARY HINDUISM A QUEST FOR IDENTITY
This book attempts to answer a few questions about Hindus in the contemporary
Indian context. The questions this book addresses relate to the identity of
Hindus.Who is entitled to define that identity—a political party, a cultural
group or the self appointed guardians of its purity? Out of the multiple facets
that Hinduism encompasses which one of these is the true face of a real Hindu?
The author believes that the so-called communalism or the fundamentalism among
them is a delayed response of a thousand years of unabated onslaught on their
rituals and cultural